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anyone who has given it a low rating has accompanied it with an apology for criticising it or wrote something politically correct or diplomatic, such is the fear for what would happen if we talk against it. I won't lie even I'm a little wary of criticising it outright (people get arrested here if they offend someone) so :I'm glad of the Passive Resitance thing. no violence, no bloodshed, win-win for both sides which is a laudable thing (truly)but he also believed thatwomen=/=men . he talks primarily of men, and women are mentioned as mothers, wives or daughters. nothing elsesimilarly women=impure. so he asks men to embrace "chastity" , have sex in marriage only to have children otherwise abstain from it altogether. and it MAY be asked "what are her rights, and other such questions?" but you need to "solve these puzzles" . because nobody cares we're on a greater mission hereand then there was some example that a man with a stick faces a lion and drops the stick because he has no fear woah

also Education is only talked for boys. again where are the girls? then he asks why you'd want to give a peasant an education, "do you wish to make him discontented with his cottage or his lot?" I was very...amusedhe got a good education but still didn't see the value of it. rightthere's also a mention of a cow goddess lol. I will never get this logic where cows>womenhe vehemently believed that religion>scienceI can never agree with this person on anything if he were here right now he'd never approve of the English education we all got because now we are apparently "enslaved" by the western world (actually a lot of things make sense now. those people who beat couples up in public places because it's against Indian culture, ik where they're coming from)he had such regressive thoughts, it appals me. not able to overlook it

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.

The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organizing peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A lifelong opponent of "communalism" (i.e. basing politics on religion) he reached out widely to all religious groups. He became a leader of Muslims protesting the declining status of the Caliphate. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination. His spiritual teacher was the Jain philosopher/poet Shrimad Rajchandra.